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I write this to you with a sore heart because this is one of the causes I care about the most.
What if this happened to my wife and children?
Can you imagine seeing my wife and children starving, emaciated, crying, and begging for help, and knowing that there was nothing I could do about it? The thought crushes me, and I don’t want to think about it.
But I have to.
I am writing this to ask you to open your heart and help with any donation you can…
In case you haven’t seen the recent updates on the situation in Kenya, in most cases, they’ve just had all their crops wiped out due to severe flooding.
I have only one week to raise this money and personally distribute it to help prevent hundreds of thousands of people from facing starvation and death.
It doesn’t have to be this way. You can make a difference and save lives.
Our target is to save at least 150,000 Kenyans from starvation…
And this can be achieved if we make it to our $100,000 plus additional matched $100,000!
Our previous efforts have made a huge difference, but things have become so much worse for Kenyans…
Even before this dire situation with the floods, things became really bad because both the COVID-19 “pandemic” and the Russia-Ukraine war majorly disrupted the global food supply chain.
And on top of these massive challenges, they’ve been facing ongoing drought.
Not only are they losing crops…
but their livestock are
dying too.
The result for Kenyans has been devastating… and they need our help more than ever before.
I just think about all the blessings I have in my life and I can’t begin to imagine the fear of not even having enough food to eat or any solutions.
The imagery of destruction is almost unreal…
And the personal stories are heart-wrenching.
And what awaits when people's farms are swept away is starvation, like this emancipated four-month-old baby whose mother died from starvation.
The grandmother is left to care for the child, without any food or means to provide for them both.
I know this baby’s mother didn’t want to leave her precious baby in this world alone.
I know it because I’m a parent too…
And I can’t imagine the pain of having to leave my beautiful boys all alone in this tough world…
Without having me to nurture and guide them through life.
But there’s really not much she could do, and she tried her best to stay alive for the both of them but her frail body just couldn’t take the pressure anymore.
There just wasn’t enough food for both of them and having to breastfeed her baby put an even heavier burden on her.
In pain and agony, she had to leave her baby behind in the care of her mother…
Who now has to take on the responsibility to breastfeed the baby from her own bosom.
The sight of this baby’s fragile, malnourished body still breaks my heart because I know that if we do not lend our outstretched hands…
This innocent soul’s future cannot be guaranteed.
The result for Kenyans has been devastating…
And they need our help more than ever before!
I just think about all the blessings I have in my life and I can’t begin to imagine the fear of not even having enough food to eat or any solutions
Image Source: ZAWYA
Image Source: The Star
In communities along the Takwa River, lives have been completely turned upside down.
The 7 Forks and Mathinga Dams BURST, which unleashed floods that swept away everything in their path and claimed 50 lives in one tragic day.
Now, homes are destroyed and vital community facilities like schools and health centers are in ruins.
More than 15,000 farmers, representing 150,000 people collectively in areas like Kericho, Uasin Gishu, and Turkwel have seen their crops—their very livelihoods—washed away.
And their essential supplies have been cut off.
The roads are closed and this is all leading to critical shortages of food and medicine.And now that the demand for these has increased, while the availability has decreased prices have skyrocketed, making basic necessities unaffordable for most.
KENYANS ARE IN A TERRIFYING SITUATION KNOWING STARVATION IS A POSSIBILITY FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES.
The situation is truly heartbreaking and we need to act soon.
The good news is there is something huge that I can do to help, and that you can do to help right now, through helping Kenyans to establish Agricultural productivity THIS is the key to helping to safeguard their livelihoods amidst these major challenges.
And we need to act now, the faster we act, the more lives we can save together.
I am writing this to every person I know to help me raise funds for the men, women, and children of Kenya through the King's Ransom Foundation and my Kenyan Charitable Foundation, Heartache to Hope: Feed Africa Project, which is based in Kenya…
WE ARE GOING TO RAISE $200,000 TO HELP 150,000 OF OUR FELLOW KENYANS
These funds will go DIRECTLY to providing all the agricultural tools they need to replenish their food supplies and become a sustainable farming community again.
And in turn, helping to bring money BACK into these communities.
As we hit our target of $200,000, we will provide hundreds of thousands of people with long-term food supplies by providing seeds at the most vital time: while the soil is wet and fertile from the rain and before people reach starvation.
Food in the ground today means people will have food in three months, but if we don’t get these supplies, there will be no food, famine, starvation, and finally death.
For this reason, we need to hit our target in a week or less.
So if you feel compelled to give, don’t delay, as it will be too late. Here’s how your money can reach as many people in need as possible:
For just $72, you can give a farmer a large bag of corn seeds weighing about 53 pounds.
This bag is divided into smaller bags and distributed to many farmers.
Also, with only $600, we can give 500 farmers seeds to grow 50,000 watermelons!
On average, one farmer represents ten family members.
So that small investment is helping 5,000 people!
Watermelons are also used to sell as they have a market value of $3-5 dollars US per melon, allowing families to have income to send their children to school and even university.
With a $1,000 donation of corn seeds, we can help 2,700 farmers, helping 27,000 people total!
A gift of $3,000 lets us send seeds for cowpeas to 1,500 farmers.
That’s around 15,000 people helped with nutritious and healing food!
Cowpeas seeds are more expensive than corn seeds but are important for nutrition and market value when it comes to families selling their produce.
We also give farmers and their families a variety of seeds to help them in various ways.
In addition, if we spend $3,600, we can buy 600 tools for 600 people, supporting 6,000 people!
SO WHETHER IT'S 5 DOLLARS, 20 DOLLARS, 50 DOLLARS, 100 DOLLARS, 500 DOLLARS, OR 1000 DOLLARS, THIS SAVES LIVES.
Your money can stretch so far for emergency relief and long-term self-sustainability.
As we hit our goals, we will save approximately 150,000 men, women, and children from starvation.
And this will be achieved when we make it to our $100,000 plus additional matched $100,000!
Here is a child we helped, along with his family with sustainable farming, with drought-resistant crops.
These tools typically last up to 10 years and increase a farmer's production by more than five times.
Hitting sticks into the ground versus using a hoe is a night and day difference.
These tools help them farm their land and fix their lives.
This kind of help is CRUCIAL right now.
Every dollar you give helps us rebuild people's lives and save Kenyans from starvation.
This isn’t just food for a few days or weeks, it’s food for a lifetime.
If you are wondering about the risk of another flood…
Well, this has never happened in the entire 15 years I have been based in Kenya and is extremely unlikely to happen again.
So our efforts will be massively life-changing.
I have been supporting this work for 15 years now and have personally gone to Kenya to initiate and oversee everything that goes on, to ensure every penny raised gets to the Kenaynas most in need.
And ensure it is never swallowed up in corruption or taken in any way in administration costs.
By God’s grace, my success rate has been 100%.
And all of the personal funds, including my matching donations, are getting to people directly where 100% of donations get to those who are most in need.
And I will personally be going there once again… boots on the ground… to ensure 100% of the donations are given to those in need.
I am going to leave my family, in about a week, taking what many would consider a risky operation.
And here at Health Secret, along with a couple of my colleagues, we´re actually matching donations.
Your 1 dollar, becomes 2 dollars.
As we hit $100,000, that will activate the full matching donation of $100,000 from me and my colleagues, which can all be independently verified by King’s Ransom, a 501c3.
So this way… you´ll be able to reach even further and help even more Kenyans in need!
OUR TARGET IS TO SAVE AT LEAST 150,000 KENYANS FROM STARVATION. AND THIS WILL BE ACHIEVED IF WE REACH OUR GOAL.
These people are suffering, and we need to help as much as we can.
Your support CAN and WILL save lives.
Remember, due to the severity of the floods and other major challenges, we need to hit our target in a week or less. So if you feel compelled to give, don’t delay, as it may be too late.
I hope that wherever you are right now, you’ll do what you can to help this life-saving cause, and please share this with everyone you know.
Please forward this email to them, text them the link, and help us reach our target so that together we can prevent one of the world’s greatest tragedies.
The more who jump on to support, the more lives we’ll change, together.
Thank you in advance for any donations you can provide here.
It truly means the world to me.
With love, Jonathan Otto